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  Jerry Lewis’s Costars Speak Out: “He Grabbed Me. He Began to Fondle Me. I Was Dumbstruck”

  Vanity Fair - Julie Miller

  Holiday had every reason to trust Lewis. She met the comedian through her father, a theater executive in New York, when she was 13 and considered Lewis “family.” The year after Holiday’s breakthrough in Billy Wilder’s film The Apartment, Lewis offered her a part in The Ladies Man, a 1961 movie …

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  Gloria Swanson Was More Than Ready for Her Close-Up

  Vanity Fair - Hadley Hall Meares

  “I was now a member of the great conspiracy of silence,” Swanson writes. “I recognized how many other members belonged as I sadly began to study the faces of women around me at work, in stores, on the street.” The Movie Star of All Movie Stars Swanson would be raised out of the slapstick muck by …

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  Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: The Mythical Life of Errol Flynn

  Vanity Fair - Hadley Hall Meares

  The Great Lover Flynn’s improbable journey to stardom began in New Guinea, when a film executive named Joel Swartz chartered a boat so that he could shoot B-roll while traveling on the treacherous Sepik River. Swartz was impressed by the boat’s flashy young captain, and eventually cast Flynn as …

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  Joan Crawford's porn films: How star was TWICE blackmailed by brother who threatened to leak her early stag movies as 'Feud' recounts Hollywood scandal around the first celebrity sex tape

  dailymail.co.uk - Chris Spargo

  Joan Crawford starred in at least two pornographic films before her days in Hollywood according to multiple biographies about the Hollywood star, who …

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  Lucille Ball’s scandalous past of nude photos and casting couches

  New York Post - Larry Getlen

  In the late 1950s, Darwin Porter, student body president at the University of Miami, arranged “Lucy & Desi” Day at the school, a celebration of the …

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  The Truth Behind the Great On-Screen and Off-Screen Romance of the Silent Film Era

  slate.com - By Karina Longworth

  You Must Remember This, the podcast that tells the secret and forgotten history of 20th-century Hollywood, has joined Panoply. And when each episode …